GOP lawmaker "thrilled" to attend gay son's wedding... 3 days after voting against same-sex marriage

Jul 27, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    56% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

N/A

  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"The Pesylvania lawmaker was one of 157 Republicans to vote against the Respect for Marriage Act, which seeks to repeal the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act and require federal recognition of same-sex marriages in the United States."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"That 2015 case legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"But it sure is awkward that, just three days earlier, Thompson cast his vote against a House bill that would protect marriage equality."
Negative
-20% Liberal
Upgrade your account to obtain complete site access and more analytics below.

Bias Meter

Extremely
Liberal

Very
Liberal

Moderately
Liberal

Somewhat Liberal

Center

Somewhat Conservative

Moderately
Conservative

Very
Conservative

Extremely
Conservative

-100%
Liberal

100%
Conservative

Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The Pennsylvania lawmaker was one of 157 Republicans to vote against the Respect for Marriage Act, which seeks to repeal the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act and require federal recognition of same-sex marriages in the United States.
42% : That 2015 case legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S.
40% : But it sure is awkward that, just three days earlier, Thompson cast his vote against a House bill that would protect marriage equality.
39% : Many of those states have since made access to abortion impossible or highly restricted.
35% : The House vote came about after the Supreme Court decided last month to overturn Roe v Wade, sending the issue of abortion back to individual states.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

Copy link